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Originally Posted by Why
Go back in time(say 1999) and imagine if the internet were to BAN streaming video, simply because all the TV networks got together and convinced the idiots in congress that allowing people to watch videos on the internet would kill off all TV advertising.
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Your example is highly flawed. All internet videos are not owned by the TV networks. The situation now and in porn is that many of these companies have content which they do not own the rights to on their sites. Some have grown very big and grew their entire operation based on piracy and loopholes in the DMCA.
Most of us aren't advocating that these people shouldn't be allowed to serve full length content which they own the rights to. Let them do that if they want and can. No one is telling them that they can't. I would suggest that they should have to also pay retroactively for their illegal use of content in the past and for unfair competition but that's just me. Let's just stop the bleeding first.